Said Rubin, “The agency had 17,208 employees doing tax enforcement in 2015, down 24% from 2010, and audits of individuals are at an 11-year low … Despite the new hires, the IRS will still end fiscal 2016 with 2,000 fewer workers than it started.”

While that could be considered a silver lining, it really isn’t when you consider the magnitude of our $19 trillion national debt. Instead of using our tax dollars to hire more people dedicated to stealing from us, how about reducing the $161,000 per taxpayer burden our national debt breaks down into?